So after a week or so of editing the "stock" car, here's the end result:
...Okay, not restored yet, but that was the idea. I took an already ugly car and made it worse, live-tracing the template in grayscale for that "primer" look and putting some images of rust on a couple fenders and other places. Then I decided that wasn't enough to make this car totally hideous so I pulled in an image of shattered glass, traced it in its simplest form, and put it on the back window. And there you have a completely unrestored '74 Mustang II...icky.
Then the real fun began, and I'll admit I got carried away in detailing this car to make it look just like the picture in my head. Here's where she is now:
Put a red overlay on the original template to get that nice Coca-Cola color. Added color to the taillights and headlights. Traced an image of modern chrome rims and shrunk them down to cover those nasty stock rims and added some louvers to the windows for a sporty look. Added some Coke decals to represent my parents' restoration business and NHRA license plates for the "present" part of this project. Oh yeah, and the hood opens...I guess the surprise is there isn't an engine in this thing...just words! The hatch also opens.
Then I put together a stand for both cars, with a racing checkered flag base and an NHRA logo (which also flips open).
Here's how it works:
The icky car is slightly larger to fit snugly over the restored car. The idea is that the client would pick up the gray car and find the nicer car underneath, examine the restored piece, and read about how each part is relevant to either my past, present, or future.
I'm overall pretty content with the design :)
Here are the art boards, pre-folded.
Template from mustangattitude.com
